Chernobyl released 200 times more radiation than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, combined. As far away as Scotland, the radiation rose to 10,000 times the norm. Frighteningly, the Fukushima reactors are said to be more dangerous than Chernobyl …

Exhibit on A-bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki opens at U.N. office in Vienna

VIENNA--A permanent exhibition of artifacts and panels of photos and text related to the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has opened at the United Nations Office here to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the attacks. “Hiroshima and ...

Words are not what they used to be. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima all pale in comparison to what has now become paradoxically termed, Social Media. How do we fight this insidious form of infiltration and occupation of minds? Perhaps …

From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Fukushima: Long-term psychological impact of nuclear disasters

On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a three-part Series published in The Lancet looks at the enduring radiological and psychological impact of nuclear disasters, including the most recent accident at the Fukushima …